Express - For What?

Why do we express? Is it for the outside world or for us? If it is for us, then do we really require an outside expression? We are continously talking with ourselves. It is also a form of expression; but it is with our own being. That is never ending. This continuous chattering is going on and on. Some call it thought, some call it exhibition of one's personality, some call it art. some may also name it as 'ego' . Some make it as their living, some do it for gratification. The mode and purpose may differ, but fact is that one does feel need to express and often that is directed to something other than 'self'.

Mind you, I am not referring to communication as a matter of living beings. That is also shown by other living beings. But expression in case of human beings is altogether a different story. It has anger, pain, anxiety, fear, love, attachment and we try to put that into words, into stories, into painting, into art. We try to depict the world outside of us and in doing so we also exhibit our inside layers. So we try to give physicality to our abstract presence and in doing so we use forms, symbols and things. But can we exactly put everything into that 'material' thing? Does it get absorbed in the exact intensity by the intended other in the way we intend to do?  Most of the time, it does not. Still we express.

Because, we feel an utter urge to connect, to come out of our own travails, and also check the reality outside of us, which is first born inside of us. We feel, is it real what I feel? And is feeling limited to me?  What about the world? The beautiful and painful world, as I experience it. Is it reality? Expression is necessarily for that reality, which I perceive. Inside me, is inside the world - thw world of my own reality.